Note: Before proceeding, determine an IP address on the External Management VLAN and a hostname for the OMNI VM. Add this information to the DNS server. In this example, the hostname is omni.dell.lab, and the address is 172.18.11.56/24.
- In the vSphere Client, power on the OMNI VM and launch the web console for the VM.
- Log in with the default OMNI VM username, admin, and password, admin. The first time you log in, follow the prompts to change the admin password.
- The OMNI Menu displays, as shown in Figure 87.
Figure 87. OMNI menu
- Select 0. Full setup. The Network Manager terminal user interface (TUI) displays.
Figure 88. Network Manager TUI
Note: In the TUI, use the Tab and Arrow keys to navigate and the Enter key to select.
- Select Edit a connection > Wired connection 1.
Figure 89. Wired connection 1 selected
- In the Edit Connection window, make the following settings:
- Change the profile name to external management.
Note: The Device field is automatically populated with a MAC address and (ens160).
- Set the IPv4 Configuration to Manual.
- Next to IPv4 Configuration, select Show to expand the additional fields.
- Enter the OMNI VM IP Address/prefix, Gateway, DNS server, and Search domain. The values used for this example are shown in Figure 90.
Note: The example in Figure 90 is with L2 uplinks, so the DNS server has an IP address on the same network as the OMNI VM, 172.18.11.50 in this example. If L3 uplinks are used, the DNS server will be on a different network. For the L3 uplink examples in this guide, the DNS server IP address is 172.19.11.50.
- Set the IPv6 Configuration to Ignore.
Default values are used for the remaining settings. When complete, the Edit Connection window appears as shown in Figure 90.
Figure 90. External management connection settings
- Select OK. The Ethernet connections list displays.
- Select Wired connection 2.
Figure 91. Wired connection 2 selected
- In the Edit Connection window, make the following settings:
- Change the profile name to internal management.
Note: The Device field is automatically populated with a MAC address and (ens192).
- Set IPv4 Configuration to Disabled.
- Set IPv6 Configuration to Link-Local.
- Next to IPv6 Configuration, select Show to expand the IPv6 configuration fields.
- Next to Routing, select Edit > Add.
- Set the Destination/Prefix to fde1:53ba:e9a0:cccc::/64. Leave Next Hop empty and Metric at 0.
The Edit Connection window appears, as shown in Figure 92.
Figure 92. Internal management connection settings
Note: Only part of the Destination/Prefix field is visible on the screen. Be sure it is set to fde1:53ba:e9a0:cccc::/64.
- Select OK > OK > Back to return to the Network Manager TUI menu.
- On the Network Manager TUI menu, select Activate a connection. The connection activation window displays, as shown in Figure 93.
Figure 93. Activate/Deactivate connections window
Note: When active, connection names have an asterisk (*) next to them.
- Deactivate both connections as follows:
- Select external management > Deactivate.
- Select internal management > Deactivate.
- Activate both connections as follows:
- Select external management > Activate.
- Select internal management > Activate.
- Select Back to return to the Network Manager TUI menu.
- On the Network Manager TUI menu, select Set system hostname, as shown in Figure 94.
Figure 94. Set system hostname selected
- Change the Hostname from its default setting to the new hostname, omni.dell.lab, in this example.
Figure 95. Set hostname to omni.dell.lab
- Click OK > OK > Quit.
- The NTP Server IP/Hostname: prompt displays. At the prompt, specify the NTP server, ntp.dell.lab in this example, as shown in Figure 96. If an NTP server is not used, press Enter to skip.
- At the Install SSL Certificates from remote server [y]? prompt, enter n.
Note: OMNI certificate installation is outside the scope of this guide. Certificates can be imported later by selecting 5. Password/SSL configuration menu from the OMNI Menu. Follow the instructions provided in SmartFabric Services for OpenManage Network Integration User Guide, Release 1.3. The guide is available on the Dell EMC OpenManage Network Integration for VMware vCenter website.
Figure 96. Specify NTP server
- Press Enter to return to the OMNI menu.
- On the OMNI menu, select 4. Register/Update OMNI vSphere client plugin with vCenter.
- Enter the requested information as prompted. The following values are used in this example:
- OMNI IP/FQDN to use for registration: omni.dell.lab
- vCenter server FQDN: vcenter01.dell.lab
- vCenter server username: administrator@vsphere.local
- vCenter server password: password
After the vCenter registration information is entered, the screen appears as shown in Figure 97.
Figure 97. OMNI plugin vCenter registration input and output
- Ensure no error messages are displayed, and press Enter when prompted to return to the OMNI menu.
- At the OMNI menu, select 9. Logout.
This completes the OMNI VM console configuration.